Starting from the central cell of this maze (there's a (3) in it), the challenge is to find a path that leads you off the maze, and to a "star" (*).

The number at each cell shows how many steps, in a straight line, you must take. You can travel horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, up or down, left or right.

But! You must reach the first star in the direction you are travelling in an exact number of steps, and not go any further. If you reach a star, and still have some steps "left over", you cannot exit that way.

I can see both sides. The person who wrote the problem wants everyone to try, and feel accomplishment at solving the problem, and not for them to look at the comment of someone who used a computer to come up with a solution early.

But I think the person writing a program gets the same feeling as the person who uses pencil and paper. It can be difficult to write a program, and when it finally works, the feeling of accomplishment is similar to when the one who uses paper and pencil finally solves the problem.